📋 Tender Overview
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The Cameroonian authorities are preparing the launch of the Trans-Yaoundé project announced in 2019. At a total cost of around 120 billion CFA francs (nearly 183 million euros), construction work on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) infrastructure in the Cameroonian capital should start in the second half of 2023 if certain prerequisites are met as part of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (Pmus) supported by the Yaoundé City Council.
The initiative implemented jointly by the Cameroonian Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (Minhdu), and that of Public Works has the financial and technical support of several development partners. These include the French Development Agency (AFD), the German Agency for International Development Cooperation (GIZ) and the European Union (EU).
MoVe Yaounde is part of the city’s Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan and will be implemented over four years. It includes the TransYaounde BRT system, which will connect the Olembe multimodal platform to Ahala, running across the city for nearly 22km with 28 stations. Detailed preparatory studies will now be undertaken for the corridor and work is set to start in 2026. Commissioning is planned for 2028.
The very first BRT in this Central African country will initially consist of 52 buses serving 43,000 passengers daily in Yaoundé by 2028. According to our colleagues at EcoMatin, the future bus line will connect the Olembé stadium, the Messassi district, the administrative center of Etoudi (which houses the presidential palace), the city hall and other busy points such as the central market, the central post office and the Mvan crossroads.
This project is envisaged in a context marked by strong demographic growth and air pollution peaks. This phenomenon is accentuated by the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated by the national car fleet. In 2018, it was composed mainly of 190,000 thermal vehicles, according to official figures. In view of the situation, the government of Cameroon is inspired by other countries such as Senegal, whose recently commissioned BRT Dakar, has the wind in its sails in these times of soaring fuel prices on the continent and elsewhere in the world.
